Notices by iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop), page 37

@hollyamory *waves* hi 👋

What are you studying in linguistics? I've always found languages fascinating. :)

Car insurance is one of the nastiest, most opaque bits of black-box corporate bureaucracy most of us come across in our day-to-day lives.

Male? Pay more. Female? Pay more. Poor or unemployed? Pay more. Self-employed? Pay more. Single? Pay more. Tenant? Pay more.

The system rewards good, compliant behaviour - own home, married, two kids, Good Job - with lower premiums and penalises those who make different choices about what do to with their life.

That website with the fucking meerkat adverts says:
> Marriage symbolises so many things, not least it demonstrates that you’re responsible and care enough about another human being not to do anything crazy or reckless. Figures suggest that couples and families make fewer expensive claims than singletons.
https://www.comparethemarket.com/car-insurance/content/getting-married/

Oh, FIGURES say that. That's okay then.

Why do they need to know this for the purposes of car insurance? Surely not because married people are "more stable, reliable etc" and they'll charge them less? https://social.coop/media/X-MaE7dBdlm37GBKous

@envgen not Iceland?

@bobstechsite There hasn't been any violence in Russia up to now.

More risk of violence in Macclesfield than Moscow

I have picked up possibly the queerest box of connectors from a silent key sale

Not only does it contain Mini Gender Changers, it also contains Male to Male and Female to Female Couplers

🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈

@wxcafe Qashqais are universally driven by wankers

@tobypinder that happens to us all when we move to Milton Keynes

take one a day with water and watch the magic happen

Donating these to the NHS if no one wants them

All I really see when I shut my eyes or stop concentrating on the screen are the faces of the men, red-faced, angry, full of rage and hatred. The look in their eyes that tells me that they wish they could just get me out of my car and kill me.

I'm in the way, an irritation.

When I shut my eyes at night, or stop looking at the screen, all I can see are the faces of these men, red and outraged and hateful, the look in their eyes that says - I'd rather you were dead, worthless bitch.

Two in two days! I've had another run-in with an angry man in a car, this time because he wanted to drive the wrong way around a car park and there was nowhere for him to go.

I'm in everyone's way. The best thing I can do at this point is find a quiet ditch somewhere and go and curl up in it and fade away. I'd be out of everyone's way, people wouldn't scream and shout 'fucking cunt' at me, I could leave this country to... to whatever the hell it is nowadays.

@thamesynne Who knows what the next step is? This is someone's plan to break up Europe. Brexit was just a part of it - the far right pushes into the governments of Poland and Hungary are another part.

Whoever is doing this - and I'm not convinced Putin is anything more than a useful scapegoat here - has a step-by-step plan, country-by-country to break up the EU.

Who would profit from another war? That's where one should look. I am no conspiracy nut but it seems plain.

@thamesynne I don't know if people in Northern towns voted Leave with any knowledge whatsoever of, well, anything.

Hull and Grimsby voted Leave and their economies are based around being connected to the EU through their ports.

The whole thing was a big scam, the only message with any cut through was "vote leave and get more money for the NHS" which was a lie.

The further it goes, the more it seems like dodgy Russian, Koch Bros etc money was involved.

I don't usually listen to anything The Tatch has to say, but he has a point here.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/07/peter-tatchell-calls-london-pride-march-limit-discriminatory

Too many Pride events, Manchester and London in particular, consist largely of company floats now. "ASDA says We ❤ Pride!" and so on.

It's really not what it's meant to be about, is it? While there is still a fight to be fought, the company floats should be fucked off and replaced with something a bit more radical.

@thamesynne It reduces people to units of production who can move around Europe if they are useful to companies, but otherwise should stay in their place and stop being pesky.

@thamesynne So in effect, a Pole can move to Leicester if she is going to pack eggs for minimum wage.

A Brit can move to Frankfurt to go and work for Deutsche Bank.

But a Pole can't move to Britain to get away from Eastern European LGBT discrimination and decide what she wants to do when she gets here.

And a Brit can't move to Berlin to start a radical co-op with friends.

Movement now has to be For Work, and Work is decided by corporations and bosses.

@thamesynne It's a great solution for the right of the party, though, which is why it's been waved through with only a bit of grumbling, mostly for show.

It provides free access between the UK and EU for money and goods, so business can continue to do what it's always done.

It removes free movement except For Work, meaning your right to move now depends on whether you're useful (ie cheap) for a corporation. The gods of Work, Job Creators decide where/how we get to live.